Exploring European Citizens’ Resilience to Misinformation: Media Legitimacy and Media Trust as Predictive Variables

Building on the notion of an intangible resource, this research conceptualizes resilience as resource that can be ascribed to countries (governments and media) explores its sources. After presenting conceptual framework, study uses cross-national comparable data from Eurobarometer (a) determine whether a factor called “resilience misinformation” composed citizens’ attitudes behaviors toward misinformation conceptualized operationalized asset, (b) extent which other assets regarding media (legitimacy trust) help predict misinformation. Based statistical techniques, findings show it is possible conceptualize asset comprised several items related awareness misinformation, acknowledgment negative impact, development skills identify misinformation; analyzed in relation intangibles derive performance, such legitimacy trust media; (c) media’s seem more predictive than sociodemographic variables. findings, proposes conceptualization public sector. In addition, highlights recommendations for mainstream how manage their value while contributing